With the goal of impacting policy, Matthew Gutmann will lead a collaborative research project studying youths’ and men’s experiences around sexual and reproductive health in Mexico.
Noted SMU anthropologist Caroline Brettell joins actress Carol Burnett, musician John Legend, playwright Lynn Nottage, immunologist James Allison and other renowned leaders in various fields as a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
We are happy to announce that Dr. Lynnette Arnold will be joining us for two years, beginning in July, as the Cogut Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistic Anthropology. Dr. Arnold will teach courses in linguistic anthropology and engaged scholarship, contributing to our track in the Engaged Scholars Program and working closely with the Swearer Center.
Brown Graduate School selected 11 PhD students for the Open Graduate Education program, which provides the flexibility and resources to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field while they earn their doctorates.
An interdisciplinary research team of Brown undergraduates led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Parker VanValkenburgh developed a bilingual, tablet-based app for field and laboratory use.
Brown University’s Stephen Houston and a team of leading researchers in anthropology and Maya archeology methodically verify the authenticity of the oldest known manuscript in ancient America.
Irene Glasser's ANTH 1301 "Anthropology of Homelessness" class takes a two pronged approach to the issue of homeless, discussing policy during its weekly meetings, and supplementing the classroom experience with community service work in downtown Providence.
The Association for Africanist Anthropology proudly announces the 2015 AfAA award winners. After reviewing many excellent books, the Elliott P Skinner Book Award Committee selected Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (U Chicago Press, 2014) as its top choice.
Robert Preucel is selected as a Faculty Fellow for the Smithsonian Institution's Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology. He and another colleague are the first two faculty members in this new program.
Bhrigu Singh receives Wenner-Gren Foundation grant for Post PhD research and his wins the Joseph W. Elder Prize for the best book of 2015 in the Indian social sciences.
Paula Dias and Magnus Hansen for their interdisciplinary opportunity awards during 2015-16 at IBES and JCB, and welcome to Crystal Ngo who will be in residence at the Haffenreffer with an interdisciplinary opportunity award.
"For the United States to live up to its ideals of equality and freedom, we must do better in valuing the lives, differences, and vulnerabilities of people of color. The first step forward is to name the problem."
Congratulations to Stephen Houston for being honored with 2015 PROSE national book award for art history and criticism for "The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence."
Congratulations to Paja Faudree for being honored with the 2014 book award from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
Winner of the 2014 Eric R. Wolf Prize awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of Work, for his paper titled "Exceptional Protections: Contracts, Temporality, and Mexican Guestworkers."
Professor Kertzer talks to Dave Davies of Fresh Air about his new book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.